“We are definitely a modern family,” the Miracles From Heaven actress said of coparenting with Affleck, 43. “We’re doing really well.”

They’re doing so well, in fact, that some reports claimed they were reconciling. They aren’t — a source told Us Weekly they’re “100 percent still separated” — but they do try to spend time together as a family. Earlier this summer, Garner and the kids even relocated temporarily to the U.K. to be near Affleck while he filmed there.

“Ben was working in London on Justice League, and I felt like, well, the kids should have that experience,” she explained on the Today show. "And he and I are great friends and we just all went en masse."

Told by Morales how “admirable” it is that they’ve been able to coparent so amicably, the Alias alum replied, “It has to be [that way]. You don’t have a choice. It has to be.”

That “family first” perspective is what drew Garner to her latest movie, Nine Lives, about a workaholic businessman who finds himself trapped in the body of his daughter’s cat. “I just love the idea of celebrating the idea that parenting is about time,” she told Morales. “You can’t buy parenting, no matter what. You have to actually get down on the floor and spend some time together.”